Blogs

What do you do with them?

• Keep up what happens in each lesson. (Students could email your blog after each lesson and summarize what was done in class)
• Post interesting links you want to share with students.
• Students can maintain a blog about issues studied in class.
• Blog participation can be used as an assessment criterion.
• Can be used as a homework submission tool.

Good info: http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/

Examples

I have used this blog: http://vanweringh10.blogspot.com/ for submission of a homework task.
Year 10 students had to find a current online newspaper article about world population. I set up the blog with an email address, so that students could email the blog directly from Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail or any other email client.
The subject line of the email then becomes the subject of the post, and the body of the email is the body of the post.
It worked well as a homework task and we ended up with an interesting array of current newspaper articles.

This is an experiment: http://vanweringh9.blogspot.com/
I would like to try to email this blog (you can set it up that way) after each lesson, just a one or two lines about what we did in class. I plan to get the kids involved, ask them to email the blog in stead of myself.


Interesting links:
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/